25 Famous Quotes of John Locke
25 Famous Quotes of John Locke
• The discipline of desire is the background of character.
• What worries you, masters you.
• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
• As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
• Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.
• Where there is no property there is no injustice.
• I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
• Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
• Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
• Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
• No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
• Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
• It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
• The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
• Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
• I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
• An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
• The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
• The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
• There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
• To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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